Many Spanish-language poets, from Lorca to Pablo Neruda or Octavio Paz are indebted to the work of Juan Ramón Jiménez, Spanish poet who received the Nobel Prize of Literature en 1956. He is a rare creator of pure, lyrical texts that express the essence of poety. Julio Jensen, Associate Professor in the Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies at the University of Copenhagen, talks about this outstanding figure in Spanish culture.

Presented by Maria Jenell Nicolas

Books and publications by Juan Ramón Jiménez

Platero and I, translated by Eloïse Roach, Austin, University of Texas Press, 1957.

Selected Writings of Juan Ramón Jiménez, translated by H. R. Hays, New York, Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1957.

Three Hundred Poems, translated by Eloïse Roach, Austin, University of Texas Press, 1962.

God Desired and Desiring, translated by Antonio T. de Nicolás, New York, Paragon House, 1987.

Light and Shadows. Selected Poems and Prose, translated by Robert Bly, Dennis Maloney, Antonio T. de Nicolás, James Wright and Clark Zlotchew, New York, White Pine Press, 1987.

Time and Space: A Poetic Autobiography, translated by Antonio T. de Nicolás, New York, Paragon House, 1988.

Diary of a Newlywed Poet, translated by Hugh A. Harter, Selinsgrove, Susquehanna University Press, 2004.

Books and publications about Juan Ramón Jiménez

Cardwell, Richard A., Juan R. Jiménez: The Modernist Apprenticeship, 1895–1900, Berlin, Colloquium Verlag, 1977.

Coke-Enguidanos, Mervyn, Word and Work in the Poetry of Juan Ramon Jiménez, London, Tamesis Books, 1982.

Cole, Leo R., The Religious Instinct in the Poetry of Juan Ramón Jiménez, Oxford, Dolphin Book Co., 1967.

Jensen, Julio, The Poetry of Juan Ramón Jiménez. An Example of Modern Subjectivity, Copenhagen, Museum Tusculanum Press, 2012.

Olson, Paul R., Circle of Paradox; Time and Essence in the Poetry of Juan Ramón Jiménez, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1967.

Wilcox, John C., Self and image in Juan Ramón Jiménez, Modern and Postmodern Readings, Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1987.

Young, Howard T., The Line in the Margin: Juan Ramón Jiménez and his Readings in Blake, Shelley, and Yeats, Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1980.

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